In. Good morning i president dan cero the United Council the director of the Latin America Economic Growth Initiative had the piece published in the National Review this morning that captures the gravity of what we will be talking about today with the headline summed up the the following way. Thats democracy heads over a cliff where is the International Response . So it has been more than 100 days of ongoing opposition protest with more than 100 killed and thousands injured with 176 many basic food supply and what food can be distributed. Blast your infant mortality shot up 30 for said reaching levels of the poorest subsaharan african nations but i cannot tell you people who got familiar with venezuela understand that. The largest part of venezuelans and it goes on. To say alternately this is at a time with the International Community that yet has not happened so this enormously timely insignificant event with that humanitarian crisis of venezuela as well as try to identify new ways to
Hello everybody. Im having meetings and i know youre going to be watching a couple of them. We have a lot of people here today and a loft subjects uncolluding north korea and venezuela and i think were making tremendous head way. Welcome to the council for the americas for the latest conversation on the venezuelas i had to run and get my reading glasses. So i have turned 50 years old and im not too proud to admit it. Here we are. Indeed. Indeed. But thank you everyone for coming and what promises to be a timely conversation on a country of increasing concern to all of us that of course being venezuela for those of you who are tuning in thank you for doing so. The council of the americas is an organization that for over 50 years has promoted democracy, open markets and the rule of law. Most of us associate was the hemisphere and thats absolutely true but notice the democracy comes first and the reason why is because Everything Else we try to promote in the hemisphere context is difficul
Hello everybody. Im having meetings and i know youre going to be watching a couple of them. We have a lot of people here today and a loft subjects uncolluding north korea and venezuela and i think were making tremendous head way. Welcome to the council for the americas for the latest conversation on the venezuelas i had to run and get my reading glasses. So i have turned 50 years old and im not too proud to admit it. Here we are. Indeed. Indeed. But thank you everyone for coming and what promises to be a timely conversation on a country of increasing concern to all of us that of course being venezuela for those of you who are tuning in thank you for doing so. The council of the americas is an organization that for over 50 years has promoted democracy, open markets and the rule of law. Most of us associate was the hemisphere and thats absolutely true but notice the democracy comes first and the reason why is because Everything Else we try to promote in the hemisphere context is difficul
Hello everybody, good afternoon. Welcome to the council of americas for our conversation on venezuela. My readingn and get glasses, sorry for keeping you waiting. Ive turned 50yearsold and i am not too proud to admit it. So here we are. ] huckling in deed thank you everybody for coming to what promises to be a fascinating and timely conversation about a country that is of increasing concern to all of us. That is in his window. For those of you tuning in, thank you. Of the americas is in an organization that for over 50 years has promoted democracy, open markets, and the role of most people associate us with business agenda and the hemisphere but democracy comes first. The reason why is because Everything Else we try to promote in the western hemisphere context is much more if about to do if a democracy is not strong and healthy and growing across if democracy is not strong and healthy and growing and one of the reasons why were so deeply concerned about the direction of venezuela today
Review in 1955 that the opponents of the new deal consented and even embraced the term conservatism. They thought all along that they were that drove liberals. What to do with the welfare state, that is a big question. I would say in general that i think simplicity is always better and what things we can do to simplify the process by simplicity and in the political logic of the welfare state as it has been created in this country and by other groups is that we, to use one of built up please passphrases, with rack and admitted as complicated as possible. Money comes from us in a variety of ways. It goes to different people in a variety of ways. Nobody is ever quite sure whether they are a net importer or not exporter of all of these free range dollars. At the conservative interest investors compare the pier we should admit in a way that the new deal has sort of one. Liberals act as though they have to keep bribing people to create the charade that everyone can be a net importer of a fin